Electric F1 Racing - FIA Formula E
http://www.fiaformulae.com/
The Championship centres around three core values of Energy, Environment and Entertainment and is a fusion of engineering, technology, sport, science, design, music and entertainment - all combining to drive the change towards an electric future. This is really big news for electric vehicles. Next year a major racing series will begin in 10 major cities, with all cars powered by electricity. |
10:01pm 18/09/13 Permalink
But far faster than anything petrol can produce.
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10:50pm 18/09/13 Permalink
The team I'm working for at the moment is looking at running in this series.
They won't be particularly quick, slightly less aero than a f3 car so think laptimes around 20 seconds slower than a F1 car. Whats laughable is you need two cars per driver, so in the race you do 25 minutes in one car and then change to the spare car for another 25 minutes as the batteries only last that long ... |
01:59am 19/09/13 Permalink
The REAL question is - Will it be as boring as Formula 1?
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02:12am 19/09/13 Permalink
I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes - but I predict it will be a lot like A1GP - no spectators and a minimal television following on second-rate tracks.
It'll be interesting to see how they sound (hah), and it's good to see how Dallara have designed them to be aerodynamically supportive of vehicles behind, so overtaking is possible. But considering they're more at the F3/GP2 speed, this shouldn't be a major factor. Wait and see, I guess. |
07:34am 19/09/13 Permalink
Electric Vehicles are evil and are only driven by homosexuals. end of thread. |
07:43am 19/09/13 Permalink
Electric cars, everything in the series gets transported by petrol vehicles. :I
No real interest in this :\ |
09:35am 19/09/13 Permalink
Slaps you sound like an electric car driving type
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09:41am 19/09/13 Permalink
Are they going to give them fake engine noises or something? Otherwise it will be a very quiet race.Nah they'll just hire very noisy commentators. |
10:04am 19/09/13 Permalink
The 10 hour refueling pitstops might make the race a bit boring. Never know, they could have a rackmount set of batteries and they just rack in and out as they need. (We don't wait for them to throw new tyres on each rim at a pitstop, they change out the whole rim and fix it later.) |
01:33pm 19/09/13 Permalink
It's the route motor racing has to head in unfortunately, at least from an audible point of view. This series may not actually be any better for the environment or costs but it's the start of the development process to improve the tech and make it viable in the future on a wide scale. All the big names are involved from a technical standpoint, Mclaren, Williams and Renault so it's not small time backyard BS.
Pity the cars are beyond horrid (imo). http://www.fiaformulae.com/gallery/vbig/New_car_2.jpg That suspension will be working hard wiht such narrow tyre side walls. last edited by Ospi at 14:24:00 19/Sep/13 |
02:21pm 19/09/13 Permalink
Those tyres aren't even stretched bro
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02:32pm 19/09/13 Permalink
I think he's referring to profile, not stretch. It's a good thing though, as beforehand the large sidewalls gave a spongy feel to the car, and it was hardly a tunable characteristic.
Remove all that uncontrolled tyre play, let the suspension take the extra load, then at least you can tune the behavior of the car instead of complaining to a tyre manufacturer to have changes made. |
02:47pm 19/09/13 Permalink
they have been racing the "zero emissions" bikes at the iom tt since 2010.
at first they were boring & slow.. but they are pretty fast now. not anywhere near as fast as the petrol bikes.. but still fast. the top teams & the top riders are all involved so it's not a "novelty" class of racing anymore. john mcguiness, one of the fastest tt riders evah, says the electric bikes are about equivalent to a works 2-stroke 125cc bike... so not awesomely powerful but nimble & fairly fast. |
03:03pm 19/09/13 Permalink
I reckon the cars look really cool.
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03:04pm 19/09/13 Permalink
Battery technology will improve. Let's face it, this is the first very mainstream application where just having any battery won't suffice.
We can make extremely powerful electric motors, we have high current switches, cables, and controllers. The future of these cars is all in the battery, the rest of the tech is old news. Electric motors, wiring, etc. |
03:30pm 19/09/13 Permalink
Technology, Emotion, Show lolwut. Do we need to be told what racing is about now? "You see it's electric, so there's no technology involved, and because we'll be using robots, there won't be any emotion. And we'll need to have the lights off and put the tracks in tunnels (to reduce wind resistance) with our energy conservation scheme so you won't see anything." http://s10.postimg.org/eytg3qlll/electf1.jpg |
03:57pm 19/09/13 Permalink
I think this will go a long way towards making leaps forward in electric car technology, and I'll definitely be watching if it shows on FTA TV (yeah right).
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06:27pm 19/09/13 Permalink
Oh that's cute, you think lithium batteries don't explode. Clearly you've never owned a Dell. pretty sure those batteries (the shipping of) has been the major killer of 747's |
06:30pm 19/09/13 Permalink
props to yellow cabs for pushing the envelope, though I'd sooner owner/drivers be allowed to mod their vehicles to electric on the same deal
likewise at work.. our workforce is 99% contractor now. Fuel is their biggest expense. Why isn't Toyota answering our emails on the problem? Hyundai and Mercedes is bending over backwards for us, but there's no commitment to provide. Where is Ford here?? They have electric vans sure but none here in the Aus market. ** we need electric (or hybrid) work vans **NOW** **. not tomorrow - NOW last edited by koopz at 21:05:05 19/Sep/13 |
09:01pm 19/09/13 Permalink
pretty sure those batteries (the shipping of) has been the major killer of 747's haha, they spend millions of dollars with airport security, scanning everyone, runing them through metal detectors, slowing everyone down, and turns out all I needed to do was click 'Place Order' on dell.com. |
09:16pm 19/09/13 Permalink
But far faster than anything petrol can produce. Faster than petrol? This series the cars are restricted to power saving mode and that's 133kw with a few small push to pass boosts allowed to 200kw. Gonna be f*****g s*** bro. But thanks for the heads up so don't waste my time. tl;dr looks s*** but I guess they had to start some where. |
09:24pm 19/09/13 Permalink
